Word: pol
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David Gilbert-Pederson does a pretty good impression of a grizzled old pol. A delegate from Minneapolis and full-time Barack Obama field worker, he's on his fifth campaign, having cut his teeth working for Walter Mondale's brief Senate run back in 2002. Although he's on constant alert for surprise swift-boat-style attacks from the right, Gilbert-Pederson reports that Obama's operation is "one of the best that I've ever seen in a presidential race...
...recommendations on a slew of sketchy nightclubs, I changed the subject to his family. From his change in demeanor, I knew I had touched on a sensitive subject. He replied that both his parents were killed by the Khmer Rouge. Although I was familiar with the reign of Pol Pot and knew that millions had died under his regime, the temporal proximity was surprising to me. Only a generation ago in Cambodia, almost a fifth of its citizens were killed. Now, after years of political and economic instability resulting from corrupt politics and the Asian financial crisis of the late...
What does Obama need? The master pol Lyndon B. Johnson once cut to the essence of unity in a divided party when he said he preferred to have his foes inside his tent, um, relieving themselves outward, as opposed to outside pointing...
...ironclad reputation for honesty and integrity--she famously insists on always picking up her own tab, even if it's just for a plate of hummus. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is in many ways Olmert's opposite. The Prime Minister is a jokey backslapper and charmer, a consummate pol with expensive tastes in cigars, flashy wristwatches and fountain pens; Livni, 49, is a no-nonsense former Mossad agent who eschews small talk, avoids the Bar Mitzvah circuit most Israeli politicians use to rack up favors and lives quietly in a modest Tel Aviv home with her husband and two sons...
...Pol Antràs fits into a more classic mold of senior professor—one whose research put him in line for a permanent appointment...